Word: grief-stricken
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...directorial decisions contribute to the over-dramatization of the actors. In the case of blocking, the lack of acting off center stage makes the rest of the theatre seem cluttered with statues rather than actors. For example, when Titus renounces his children, one would expect his sons to be grief-stricken at both their father’s anger and their brother’s death. Instead, they expressionlessly examine the corpse as though it were a lab cadaver...
...show's matriarch and protagonist, a furry female Tony Soprano--died of a snakebite defending her pups. A few weeks later, Flower's long-suffering daughter Mozart--a fan favorite who was abandoned by her mother and lost several pups--was killed off camera by an unknown predator. Grief-stricken fans held online vigils, created Diana-style tributes, even suggested the deaths were faked. (Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance--they hit every stage.) Manor is a study of animals, but it's become a study of humans. How much reality do we want from reality TV? And when nature, producers...
...attention for his films with a few choice details about his private life, Gosling answers questions about his romance with his Notebook co-star, Rachel McAdams, by shaking his head as if at a naughty child. Sex appeal, says Gosling, who's gotten doughy and scruffy to play a grief-stricken young father in Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel The Lovely Bones, is the problem with male actors today. "The only really good performances out right now are female performances," he says, citing Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There and Marion Cotillard...
...deal of a movie either. It's small scale, low budget and not straining for big yuks. On the other hand, it's an unprepossessing delight, especially after Frank meets Laurel (Tea Leoni). She's a salty talker and he's drawn to her by her less than grief-stricken remarks about her stepfather, as Frank prepares his body for his last rites. You may wonder what a bright, pretty young woman would see in an aging, taciturn mobster, but, hey, this is a romantic comedy of a sorts and stranger things than that have happened over the years...
...beyond that we get very little from his character.Weakest of all is Donna Bullock as Becca, despite the fact that the part is so beautifully written. Her performance we miss the fragility that rounds out the character and allows us to sympathize. Rather than being grief-stricken, this Becca comes off as merely irritable, and one can hardly blame Howie for wanting to stay out of the house.James Noone’s set, a slide-show of rooms sliding (creakily) in and out of the frame of the house, is a bright spot of the evening, transitioning inventively from perfect...